King Babylon

Michael Haziz

The Haziz family fled Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s early years and lost their family fortune and properties in doing so. Settling in Emerald City, they found little acceptance among the refugee community thanks to the incessant open bitterness and continual complaining by Michael’s mother and grandfather about their lost fortune. His father worked hard to build a new life in America despite being constantly sabotaged by his wife and father-in-law, both of whom blamed him for their poverty. This was the environment into which Michael was born and raised, a world where he was constantly told he should rightfully have great wealth, power, and status, all of which were denied him by petty, jealous people who kept him down. His father’s words of encouragement and moral guidance couldn’t be heard over his mother’s and grandfather’s constant ravings. Michael grew up filled with hatred and jealousy and turned to street crime by the time he was ten years old. At first, he targeted his fellow refugees, many of whom were from races, religions, or nationalities he had been taught to hate and look down on. When his victims eventually discovered his crimes and retaliated against his father, it cost him his business. Rather than face his punishment, Michael ran away. To this day, he has no idea what happened to his father or the rest of his family.
Michael moved frequently, always cutting his stays short when his petty thefts, robberies, and minor cons inevitably brought him too much attention. He became adept at disappearing into the night one step ahead of angry victims and the police. His last petty crime was purse-snatching and he was in the middle of running away from the scene when he turned the corner and ran full-tilt into the Silver Storm.
He awoke hours later in the hospital. Drunk with power, Haziz went on a confused, frenzied rampage of destruction before regaining his senses enough to flee the scene and assess what had happened to him. Certain his new powers were a sign he was destined for greatness, Haziz chose the name King Babylon and began to establish himself as one of the world’s greatest supervillains.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Michael Haziz didn’t know it, but the Silver Storm actually awakened latent power he already possessed. Whatever his powers might have been is unknown, but now, he channels raw chaos and can use it to disrupt matter, energy, and probability all around him. King Babylon is strong and incredibly durable. The field of chaotic force he generates around himself enables him to ignore gravity and creates a visual and spatial distortion around him; it also disrupts neural and biological functions and interferes with attempts to alter probability. He can throw a blast of raw “chaos force” which disintegrates anything it hits. He can also use his powers to induce madness and rage in any life form he sees.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

King Babylon is loud, boastful, and confident in the power he wields. There is no end to his desire for the best in life, but he has very little taste or class; the supervillain equivalent of the nouveau riche. Beneath his vain exterior is a petty, insecure man desperately seeking validation. A man who has yet to realize that despite all his power, he’s still the same loser he’s always been. He has a pathological need to be accepted as a major player on the supercriminal scene, but lacks the vision and grand motivation that separates the master villain from the everyday threat.

Social

Contacts & Relations

There’s an important distinction between those King Babylon considers his “peers” and those who consider themselves his allies. He sees himself amongst the nobility of power and infamy in the world, but the other members of that club tend to see King Babylon as a useful, albeit dangerous, dupe and pawn.
Any hero King Babylon encounters is likely to be attacked in an attempt to prove he can beat them; those who make a good showing or embarrass him make his hit list forever. He never lets go of a grudge.